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Please pay careful attention to these warnings as they greatly affect the performance and safety of your device. These are not complete instructions but are device-specific warnings to make note of when operating your Smoothieboard v2. Handling Power Inputs Probe … Continued

Exciting times. Boards are beginning to go out. People should start getting boards any time now and this will progress and speed up in the next coming weeks. We began fulfillment with just the V2 prime and early bird prime … Continued

Sometimes, when attempting to produce items you forget little things while focused on the bigger things. Like bagging connectors for instance. This is one of those time consuming things that anyone with an electronics based project has had to deal … Continued

Slogging along through the assembly process. All was going well. PnP was cooperating with me. I produced 50pcs of the V2 2660 prime (bottom side) and had the oven all warmed up and ready to go. I started flowing some … Continued

Smoothieboard V2 Prime final Revision features. So as we finalized some of the features on the V2 prime it is a good time to do a writeup of what to expect.  Please be aware I may be slightly off on … Continued

It has been a while since we last posted. Very busy times…there has been a lot of progress to catch up on. First off, Chip shortage is still raging. We have everything on hand except for the TMC2590. We placed … Continued

It has been a bit since the last update but don’t let that worry you. Significant progress has been made since the last post behind the scenes. Last time I wrote I told you about the last minute redesign and … Continued

Recently I came across a stack of old Reprap beds which I had created to be made into resistor heated beds which were no longer used for the most part by the community due to their weight and the ease … Continued

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I have recently been tuning and updating a couple printers I built for a school in 2014…mostly they have been solid with few issues but it was time to give them the design updates which I have been amassing over … Continued

From today on any purchase of a V1 Smoothieboard from Robosprout will come with a coupon which is good for $10 off V2 Smoothieboard upon release. Just a little thank you to our customers who are still building machines while … Continued

A lot of people have been asking “How is the chip shortage effecting the project? How does this impact V2? Can you help us find some LPC chips?”…it is a major issue. For those of you who don’t know what … Continued

To start I was working on modifying a K40 laser and like many more out there I wasn’t happy with the stock air exhaust. So as usual I jump into Fusion360 and model up an adapter to take the stock … Continued

Over the last few months I have been making some prototypes for boards which I felt may be useful to the community. One of which being this board. It is a Smoothieware V1 compatible board which is setup in the … Continued

After a long gap of limited supply we have Smoothieboards in stock. Currently, there is store inventory in supply with OEM quantities coming soon. These are authentic Smoothieboards..all sales benefit further development. International customers please email directly for an exact … Continued

Alright. Just to start this update will be a bit of a long one and I may need to do it in sections. The V2 Smoothieboard progress has been slow but it overall has been very productive. After reading this … Continued